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I'm making a scarecrow for our scarecrow festival and what I would really like to do is have a button that a passerby can press and then a song plays. So I'd need weatherproof speaker and remote/button/something, and something that would just play one song. Is there anything off the shelf that would do this? Looking at my peeps because this would probably be up their alley. (bonus points if I can attach fairy or disco lights to the button that come on too)

@leyrer @CatherineFlick

Ohai, nice to meet you.
Having something that plays a song when a button is pressed is super easy.
The simplest solution would be a board like this:

adafruit.com/product/2341

If you want to also light up something, maybe check out neopixel based products.
In this case i would use an esp32 or something similar with a little waveshield.

Have fun tinkering!

PS: join your local hackspace!

www.adafruit.comAdafruit Audio FX Mini Sound Board - WAV/OGG Trigger 16MB FlashWould you like to add audio/sound effects to your next project, without an Arduino+Shield? Or maybe you don't even know how to use microcontrollers, you just want to make a sound play ...
Prof. Catherine Flick

@overflo @leyrer sadly I don’t have the mental or actual time to join a hackspace, my making time is limited to the 2-3h between kid bed time and mine :) but thanks for the suggestions! Great ideas.